Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first, sentence 15

Hamsters are night animals that sleep in the day and may bite if woken, and a fall from a small child's hands can badly hurt one.

Who acts: Hamsters, night animals, fall · What happens: be, sleep, bite, wake, hurt · To what, where: night animals, one

This is a sentence of the lesson «Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hamsters, night animals, fall), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hamsters	hamster	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 animals	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 animals	cop
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 animals	compound
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sleep	nsubj
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 animals	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sleep	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bite	cc
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 bite	aux
12	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sleep	conj
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 woken	mark
14	woken	wake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 bite	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hurt	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hurt	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fall	det
18	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hurt	nsubj
19	from	from	ADP	_	24 hands	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 child	det
21	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 child	amod
22	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hands	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 child	case
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fall	nmod
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 hurt	aux
26	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 hurt	advmod
27	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 animals	conj
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 hurt	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 animals	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Hamsters	night animals			tree rules
2	sleep	present	night animals		day		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bite	may	night animals not said here				vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	wake a condition, not said to happen	participle	night animals not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	hurt	can	a fall from a small child's hands	one		badly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:325-choosing-a-pet-the-questions-to-ask-first.lesson:15.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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